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Bye Bye Hero / Hello Again Treo Pro

Pecking out this blog post on my trusty Treo Pro. Yep back to familiar Windows Mobile 6.1, I sold my HTC Hero to a friend. Enjoyed my short stint with Android (approx. 3.5 months) but there's nothing like the comfort of your first smartphone OS. Still not sure if I will stick w/ Windows Mobile or try out Windows Phone 7 (when it is released later this year).

I just wanted to share some stuff I learned over at xda-dev's forum today.--Anyway as the title states this is about today themes and Orientation Aware Backgrounds. It's really quite simple --All you need is 2 images [3 if you want to change the Start Menu image as well] of the proper resolution.--QVGA:tdywater_320_240.gif [Landscape Image] = 320 x 240 imagetdywater_240_320.gif [Portrait Image] = 240 x 320 imagestwater [Start Menu Image] = 190 x 290 image --VGA:tdywater_640_480.gif [Landscape Image] = 640 x 480 imagetdywater_480_640.gif [Portrait Image] = 480 x 640 imagestwater [Start Menu Image] = 399 x 586 image --What you do is copy the files to \Windows directory and viola! Orientation Aware Backgrounds! --Notes: The theme's default images will be used once you switch themes. So you would need to copy the files back again to \Windows dir for it to work again, what I do is I have placed Wallpaper sets in ZIP files on my Storage Card so I can change and change as desired.…